14-letter words containing i, f, e, r, o
- porcupine fish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
- potter's field — a piece of ground reserved as a burial place for strangers and the friendless poor. Matt. 27:7.
- prairie falcon — a North American falcon, Falco mexicanus, grayish-brown above and white barred with brown below.
- prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- preformulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- prettification — to make pretty, especially in a small, petty way: to prettify a natural beauty.
- preunification — of the period before unification
- pride of china — the chinaberry, Melia azedarach.
- pride of place — the highest or most outstanding position; first place.
- pride-of-india — chinaberry (sense 1)
- prison officer — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- professionally — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- profit squeeze — a sharp narrowing of the gap between cost and revenue.
- profit-seeking — attempting to make a profit or financial gains
- proof positive — To be proof positive of a particular fact or quality means to be evidence that it is true or that it exists.
- proximity fuse — an electronically triggered device designed to detonate an explosive charge in a missile, etc, at a predetermined distance from the target
- proximity fuze — a design for detonating a charge, as in a projectile, within a predesignated radius of a target.
- public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- quinquefarious — consisting of or divided into five lines, sections, etc
- radiofrequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- raise the roof — the external upper covering of a house or other building.
- re-affirmation — the act or an instance of affirming; state of being affirmed.
- recessionproof — not susceptible to an economic recession: a recessionproof economy; He wants a long-term contract to make his job recessionproof.
- recodification — the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code.
- reconfirmation — the act of confirming.
- reflectionless — unable to reflect, not possessing a reflection
- reflexological — of or relating to reflexology
- reform judaism — Judaism as observed by Reform Jews.
- reformationist — someone who was part of the Reformation
- refractoriness — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- regasification — Regasification is the process of returning LNG to its gaseous state.
- reinforcements — the act of reinforcing.
- relexification — to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure.
- resinification — to convert into a resin.
- restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
- reverification — the act of verifying.
- revivification — to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.
- revolving fund — any loan fund intended to be maintained by the repayment of past loans.
- right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
- right-to-lifer — someone who supports the right to life of the unborn and opposes abortion, experiments on embryos, etc
- rite of spring — French Le Sacre du Printemps. a ballet suite (1913) for orchestra by Igor Stravinsky.
- rooting reflex — a reflex in infants in which the head is turned towards any stimulus; used to find the nipple
- ross ice shelf — an ice barrier filling the S part of the Ross Sea.
- route flapping — flapping router
- sacchariferous — containing or yielding sugar.
- safety officer — The safety officer in a company or an organization is the person who is responsible for the safety of the people who work or visit there.
- saxifragaceous — belonging to the plant family Saxifragaceae.
- self-assertion — insistence on or an expression of one's own importance, wishes, needs, opinions, or the like.
- self-direction — the act or an instance of directing.
- self-discovery — process of understanding oneself